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Wilm Vermeir in winning mood in the CSI5* Longines Grand Prix of St. Moritz

Sunday, 20 August 2017

Longines CSI5* St. Moritz 2017

Wilm Vermeir and Iq van het Steentje. Photo (c) CSI St. Moritz.

Wilm Vermeir (BEL) is in top form at the moment, and took another win when topping Sunday's CSI5* Longines Grand Prix of St. Moritz worth 250 000 CHF.

This was Vermeir's second win of the weekend at the Swiss event, and it came on the 9-year-old gelding Iq van het Steentje (Toulon x Kannan). Against a field of 40 other riders, the Belgian riders was one of nine making it to the jump-off where four repeated their clean sheets from the first round.

With a time of 36.72 seconds, Vermeir was by far the fastest leaving Robert Whitaker (GBR) and Catwalk IV (Colman x Corleone) to runner-up position after stopping the clock at 38.20. Alain Jufer (SUI) was the best of the home riders to finish third with Rahmannshof Tic Tac (Contact van de Heffinck x Fuego du Prelet), with a time of 38.62 seconds. The last double clear belonged to Bronislav Chudyba (SVK) on Zapria (Colman x Landlord), who finished fourth. Fastest of all was Nicola Philippaerts (BEL) and H&M Harley v. Bisschop (Dulf van den Bisschop x Coronado), but with one rail down they had to settle for fifth.